Danny Aiello

Danny Aiello (20 June 1933-12 December 2019) was an American actor from Manhattan, New York City. He came from a working-class Italian family, and he dropped out of high school, faked his age, and joined the US Army, later working as a Greyhound bus driver and President of Local 1202 of the Amalgamated Transit Union. He left the union after it pursued an unauthorized wildcat strike, and he became a theatre actor in 1972 and soon became a film actor. During Bill Clinton's presidency, the lifelong Democrat Aiello became a Republican due to his disgust with Clinton's regime and due to his traditionalist views. He died in 2019 at the age of 86.